Today, Friday 12th November, 150 people marched from the Angolan Embassy near Baker Street to the Home Office near Parliament Square to demand justice for Jimmy Mubenga, the 46 year old Angolan killed during a deportation from Heathrow exactly one month ago.

Yesterday, Saturday 30 October, London saw the second "Life is too short ..." demonstration, leading from the Westminster CCTV Headquarter in Piccadilly Circus to the UK Border at St.Pancras.

The demonstration entered St Pancras International around 5pm with a sound system playing. Several people attempted to cross the border by through the Eurostar passport controls but were stopped later by security and transport police.

Today 60 people marched from Piccadilly Circus to St Pancras to demand an end to surveillance and borders.

The activists entered St Pancras around 5pm with a sound system and banners proclaiming “Life is too short to be controlled” and “Calais migrants welcome here”. Several people attempted to cross the border by trying to force their way through passport control but were stopped by security, one person was arrested.

On November 29th a law to limit immigration, punish people for having relationships outside of the EU and further link language and immigration controls, will come into effect. Spouses and partners, from outside of the European Economic Area, applying to come to Britain, will have to pass an English language test before they come to the UK. The government estimate that this will lead to a 10% reduction of people coming on the spousal visa. The new requirement will be debated again next Monday in the House of Lords.

The Refugee Action Group has stepped up its campaign against the opening of the immigration detention centre in Larne as the Home Office UK Border Agency presses ahead with plans for the centre. The Larne Borough Council meets on Friday to make a final planning decision on the centre. This would be the first such centre in Northern Ireland, possibly housing 22 detainees at any one time. The Group notes that in 2008, the Council of Europe urged the UK government “to consider the possibility of drastically limiting migrants’ administrative detention”. Despite this and the considerable recent cuts to the Home Office budget, the UK Border Agency appears intent on the very costly exercise of building an immigrant detention facility in Larne.